User talk:Poorlyglot

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On 28 January 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mandisa Thomas, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that activist Mandisa Thomas was recognized in the bill officially proclaiming October 15, 2017, as the 16th annual celebration of California Freethought Day? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mandisa Thomas. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Mandisa Thomas), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

On 6 February 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Natalie Grams, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that German author Natalie Grams set out to write a scientific defense of homeopathy, but instead discontinued her homeopathic practice and wrote a book called Homeopathy Reconsidered? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Natalie Grams. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Natalie Grams), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:08, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

lifelong learner

Thank you for quality articles about "a variety of things" including scientific skepticism, such as Natalie Grams, Mandisa Thomas, for exquisite edit summaries, such as "Actually I'm wrong pretty regularly.", for giving a goat to the bot, - Jeff, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:59, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Two years ago, you were recipient no. 1846 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:56, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Mandisa Thomas. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. DGG ( talk ) 15:38, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:12, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

Four years!

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